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Date:      Wed, 02 Oct 2002 10:44:29 GMT
From:      Socketd <db@traceroute.dk>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ACPI programming under FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <20021002.10442900.1477136604@rafter.>
In-Reply-To: <200210021034.g92AYnvv066077@lurza.secnetix.de>
References:  <200210021034.g92AYnvv066077@lurza.secnetix.de>

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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 10/2/02, 12:34:49 PM, Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de> wrote regardin=
g=20
Re: ACPI programming under FreeBSD?:

> Mark Santcroos <marks@ripe.net> wrote:
>  > ACPI developers, there is alot more information available in the ke=
rnel=20
about
>  > ACPI that we don't export to userland yet.
>  > Do you think we should do that using more sysctl's or should we=20
implement
>  > some ioctl's on /dev/acpi to retrieve the information?

> I'm not an ACPI developer, but I really like the sysctl
> interface, because it enables you to retrieve information
> from within scripts easily.  For ioctls you would have to
> write a separate tool to be able to access it.

I think the list of sysctl entries is pretty long as it is.

> Just my 0.02 Euro.

Just my 25 =F8re (or 0.25 kroner).

Br
socketd

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